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Promo day recap: Simple Plan hope to start working on 6th album by the end of the year!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 22. February 2017 | no comments

Yesterday, Simple Plan’s Jeff Stinco and Chuck Comeau gave away a number of interviews to media outlets in Quebec City, as a part of their promo for the upcoming Canadian Taking One For The Team tour in March, as well as their 15th anniversary No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour which will kick off in the U.S. also next month.

Besides posing for a Le Soleil photoshoot (which you can now check out in the gallery), Chuck and Jeff also revealed a number of interesting things during the many interviews on Tuesday including their upcoming trip to China, their tour in Canada and the possibility of a NPNHJB tour there, Simple Plan’s next album, David’s return on tour and Chuck also delved into the topic of the current U.S. political scene.

Let’s have a closer look at all these topics now:

Quick trip to China

As we’ve already heard from David, next week should be devoted to practising for the upcoming tours. Shortly after that, in the beginning of March, the band will be travelling to China, to play the song ‘The Heroes’ at two early screenings of the Canadian animated movie ‘Snowtime!’ in China. In an interview for Radio Canada, Chuck said: “We will do 30 hours of plane for a song and four days later, we will be in New York! It’s a bit crazy!”

TOFTT tour & upcoming NPNHJB tour in Canada

Before the No Pads, No Helmets… Just Balls tour officially starts, Simple Plan have one more Taking One For The Team our on their schedule, and that is the rescheduled Canadian tour from November. At that time, the band was forced to cancel the original dates due to Pierre’s strained vocal cords, but decided to make it up to their fans at home with a rescheduled tour in March. Because of this reason, this tour will not be a No Pads tour, unlike the one in the U.S., which follows right after the Canadian one, but it will be a TOFTT tour instead. Good news for the Canadian fans is that the band does want to come back for a No Pads tour too. According to Chuck, they are aiming for the end of the year.

6th Simple Plan album

One of the most interesting news from the promo day came from a paraphrase, which can be found in the forementioned Radio Canada article. The article states: “[…] Speaking of studio, Chuck Comeau already hints on a possible return to work on the 6th album before the end of 2017.” As always though, we should take this information with discretion, as Simple Plan already have many plans they want to achieve by the end of 2017 – most importantly, all the remaining No Pads tours all over the world. It is however reassuring that there doesn’t seem to be plans for a long time off, as there usually is in between albums. In long term, that could mean the fans would not have to wait 5 years for a new album, like last time.

David’s return on tour

Another very important topic of discussion was the fact that after his absence on the last Simple Plan tour (South America in December 2016), David Desrosiers will be back in full strength with the band on all the upcoming tours. For the first time in an interview, Chuck discussed David’s decision to stay home, as he was in need of a short break:

It has been a pretty painful year in terms of travel, fatigue. Plus, it’s pretty intense in South America … So David said, “Listen, boys, things are a bit too much, it’s been a big year, I need to be home and rest for a bit.” We’ve been together for 15 years, we’re partners; so when one of the guys tells you: “I need a little break,” it’s sure that we’ll understand that and we’ll give him a chance to catch his breath. I was with him a couple days ago in L.A., where he’s on vacation right now, and he’s looking forward to doing shows, he’s 100% ready, he’s feeling physically ready.

Politics in the U.S. and vision of the future

Simple Plan does not consider itself to be a political band, but since two of its members (Pierre and Chuck) reside with their families in the U.S., the topic of the recent presidential elections in the United States was unavoidable. When answering a question whether he would consider moving back to Canada due to the current political climate in the U.S., Chuck said:

“You cannot say that one feels like that in cities like New York, L.A. or Chicago. These cities are still very progressive. There were even 3-4 million more votes for Clinton than for Trump, so it’s very progressive, very liberal in terms of social causes and everything. But surely, this is an important moment in the history of this country and surely, as I now have a baby, I do ask myself these questions for the future. Do we want him to grow up there? For me, it’s important that he has its francophone roots. I am in contact with his grandparents every day, my wife speaks English to him, I speak to him only in French. If we stay in the U.S. longer, we’ll send him to a French school. My wife is 100% in agreement with that. She is of Cuban origin, so she also speaks to him in Spanish, so we try to give him as many assets as possible…”

Simple Plan about David, new Xmas song and plans for 6th album in a new interview

AUTHOR: Dominika | 27. December 2016 | no comments

A new article published on the Brazilian website Revista Mais (thanks SPBR for the info), reveals a new interview with some of the guys from Simple Plan back from their visit of Brazil earlier this month.

While you can certainly read the whole interview (with the help of Google Translate), which touches the usual subjects of the new album, the band’s setlist and return to Brazil, there are a couple of specific things from this interview, which are worth pointing out.

For one, the subject of David’s absence on the South American tour was once again obviously mentioned in this article, with a yet-unheard very nice quote from Pierre, who said: “He’s very important to us, and we’re here with his support,” letting us know once again that David will be back with SP on the next upcoming shows in the new year.

Another thing that the guys pointed out in the interview was their newly released Christmas song – Christmas Every Day. We found out that the band actually recorded the song during the recording process of ‘Taking One For The Team’, but it was officially finished this November. That let’s us know that the guys probably had some more tweeking to do before they were ready to release it as a Christmas gift for their fans.

And finally, the last question of the interview asked the guys about their plans for the future. And Sebastien’s answer surely gives us new reassurance that the band is already thinking about working on album number six: “[We want to] visit some places, do some shows next year and then start working on the next album.

Simple Plan discuss vinyl release, 2017 tour plans, acoustic album and DVD in a new interview

AUTHOR: Dominika | 22. August 2016 | no comments

Before the show in Acton Vale, QC, our friends over at Tempo-Mag.com had the chance to interview Sebastien and Jeff from Simple Plan and managed to get some pretty interesting info from the twosome. While you can check out the English version of the full interview here, let’s sum up the most important things we’ve learned from it.

Vinyl release

As SimplePlan.cz has reported before, the Taking One For The Team record should be released on a vinyl on September 2nd, according to various European online music retailers. The band has finally confirmed the release of a vinyl in this interview, when Sebastien stated: “The vinyl will really come out in some places. Vinyls are so cool! The vinyls from the factory are on back order. I think that it will take only a few months, or maybe just a few weeks.” It is unknown whether Sebastien is already taking in account the already known post-poning of the vinyl (original release date was August 5th), or if there’s been another post-poning since then. However, no matter when the vinyls arrive, it is now sure that Simple Plan do plan on releasing them in the near future.

2017 tour plans

The boys also once again discussed their touring plans for 2017. As Jeff had previously mentioned, the band plans on going back to works on their next album right after they’re done with touring for Taking One For The Team (around May 2017). But where is that tour going to bring them till then? It looks like the boys are also still standing behind their previously plans on hitting Europe and Canada once next year – maybe even for the summer festival season, which means the “May 2017” date as the end of TOFTT tour cycle isn’t set in stone just yet. To directly quote Sebastien again: “Of course, we still want to be on tour this spring. I also think, we are just talking for the sake of it, nothing is confirmed yet, but we are open-minded to do some festivals next summer. Maybe here, maybe in Europe. Something’s sure: we want a new album as quick as we can. That’s true. It will happen but we want to do the things right, that’s really our good best intention.”

Acoustic album / DVD?

And finally, the ever-present questions regarding any accompanying releases from Simple Plan besides their album. Ever since 2003 when the ‘A Big Package For You’ DVD came out, many Simple Plan fans have been adamant about requesting the release of the next Simple Plan DVD in the ABPFY style. Similarly also with the recent growth of the amount of acoustic sets the band has been performing, the fans have also started asking about an acoustic album, that would feature acoustic versions of already released songs. Unfortunately, the answer to both of these projects seems to be a “no” as of right now.

While it isn’t long that some band members have stated in a recent webchat that an acoustic album “may happen”, it’s also fair to note that creating such an album would take the band a very long time, which could be spent much better on producing a brand new album, rather than “recycling” old songs. As Sebastien noted: “We really should not do an acoustic album. It will take too much time,” and as Jeff added: “I don’t think it’s a good idea. I think it will be cool to explore the idea but I don’t think it will be on this album.”

Regarding the DVD, there’s a different issue than “not enough time” – the problem is not enough footage and an out-dated medium. Back in the day, in the 00s era, the Internet was in its very beginnings and therefore wasn’t considered a threat to the movie business at first. However with the expansion of the Internet into YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat and other visually based media, Simple Plan now give out so much visual content on daily basis that they simply do not have enough of it left for a full-length behind the scenes DVD. According to the band, it’s possible that they might eventually put all these already released short pieces of footage into one big compilation – as Jeff put it in the interview: “Yes a compilation, it should exist. I don’t even know if we have any new material to present because everything ends up on the Internet. We feel that we are obliged to be present, always. So, we don’t have anything to show more than we already have.”

RECAP: Simple Plan webchat on FUSE

AUTHOR: Dominika | 11. August 2016 | 1 comment


During their promo day in New York City yesterday, the members of Simple Plan also visited the FUSE station studios in the late afternoon, where they atended a live webchat, which the fans were able to stream on FUSE’s Facebook page.

In this webchat, Simple Plan discussed a number of topics, but here’s a recap of the most interesting stuff the band has mentioned:

– About the possibility of releasing an acoustic album: “We’re thinking about it, we’ve talked about it and it MAY happen.” – Pierre
– About ‘What’s New Scooby-Doo’: “We’ve been talking about this – we wanna start playing it live.” – Pierre
– About next single: “There might be [one], but we can’t tell you…” – Pierre
– About working on next record: “I’m actually recording some tidbits on my phone that I think might sound good on the next record.” – Pierre

Watch the full version of the webchat below:

RUMOR: Simple Plan to be back in studio in 2017?

AUTHOR: Dominika | 6. August 2016 | 1 comment

In a recent interview for La Presse, Jeff Stinco once again discussed the band’s future plans regarding touring and making record no. 6. Once again, Jeff confirmed that the band plans on skipping their usual time off in between records and head over straight to works on their next album. In this La Presse interview though, Jeff also mentioned that their Taking One For The Team tour should come to close in May 2017, after which the article mentions the bands wants to go “back to studio” – still in 2017. Here’s an exact translation of an excerpt from the La Presse article:

Although the album Taking One For The Team was released in 2016, Simple Plan plan on going back to the studio next year. “The goal is not to take any break.”

Now, while this sounds very exciting, we should all be very cautious about this rumor. Judging by the fact that this information doesn’t come from a direct quote, but from the author’s article, this could very well just be a misunderstanding on La Presse’s part, as they might no know that Simple Plan never write their songs on tour and they always start the writing process after their time off. If Simple Plan were to stop touring in May 2017 and head straight to song-writing, chances are they will still continue writing in early 2018, which would make them enter the studio sometime that year. It is very unrealistic for Simple Plan to actually hit the recording studio next year, as that is almost the last part of the record making process, and the longest part is always the song-writing part. Not to mention, there is always the post-production, which could take another [at least] half a year.

What’s good news about this news is that we now have two confrmation from the band’s side already that they actually plan on working on their next album right after their tour ends. That could mean a much shorter time in between record five and six, which in today’s oh-so-quickly-changing music business is nothing but a very good plan.